Real Love Stories
Miracle by Chance Part 1

This is a “true story” about
how I met my boyfriend on a dating site on the Internet.

- Fifteen Years Ago -

I used to hang out at a country bar called Club Palomino. I loved
listening to good bands there and dancing to their country rock
music. I used to drag my friend out to see my favourite band “Cheyenne”
play. They were amazing and always packed the place. My friend
and I used to get up and dance to their songs. I was interested
in the rhythm guitar player in the band. To me, he was the best
looking one and I loved his voice along with the rhythm of his
guitar music. Yes, I had the “hots” for him and would
stare at him from the dance floor or the bar while he was playing
his guitar or singing. I’ve always had this thing for bands
as I play the guitar and always wanted to be part of a band too.

They played there for a long time and were the best
band at Club Palomino. I would go there as much as
I could just to hear them play, and of course, always
watch my favourite player. The sad part about it was
I used to see him with a short blonde girl, whom I
assumed to be his girlfriend or wife. After seeing
the band play there for a long time, the club closed
down. Yes, the club was sold. A huge townhouse sub-division
was put up in its place and the club was gone. So
were all the bands and my favourite band, Cheyenne.
When I first found out about the club closing down,
I wanted to approach Cheyenne; particularly the rhythm
guitar player and ask where would they play in the
future. However, I didn’t have enough courage
to do that. I guess things happen for a reason.

- Fifteen Years Later -

As time went on, I met someone and got married. That was a mistake.
Eventually, we got a divorce. I starting going out to bars again
but soon got tired of it and I wasn’t meeting anyone decent
enough. I wasn’t crazy about the bands playing at other
bars either. Later, a friend told me to join a particular dating
site on the Internet, which I thought I would never do. Nevertheless,
I thought I would check it out for fun as I heard so much about
people meeting their soul mates from that site. Surprisingly enough,
I had a few dates but I just didn’t find the right one from
the dating site. I sort of gave up on it until one night.

After getting home from a bar, which I hated, I went on my computer.
For some reason, I logged in onto that dating site again. I was
really glad I did that. I got an interesting email from a guy
and liked his picture. I was also touched by his email and flattered
that he was interested in my picture and profile. From then on,
we started emailing each other quite often on that site. We seemed
to have so much in common through our emails. We continued writing
and eventually got on msn and chatted for a while. He was Bulgarian
and I was Hungarian. How common was that! We discovered from our
msn chats that we had even more stuff in common. It was really
amazing. Our families even lived in the same town of all places.
We chatted every night as often as we could. And then, a miracle
happened! We started chatting on our computers about music. We
realized we liked all the same music and both of us wrote songs.